Seagate and Baidu Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement
September 17 2014 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Two leaders will work to drive advances in Cold
Storage/Archiving technologies, Big Data analysis and Shingled
Magnetic Recording
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX), a worldwide leader in storage
solutions, today announced it has signed a strategic cooperation
agreement with Baidu, China’s largest web services firm, in the
areas of low-cost online storage, archiving and Big Data
analysis.
Under the agreement, Baidu will give priority to Seagate
products when considering components for all Baidu servers and
storage facilities. In return Seagate will align with Baidu as a
Strategic Customer and give priority to Baidu when providing
enterprise storage products and relevant support, as well as
maintain a dedicated engineering team for Baidu. Seagate will
supply enterprise capacity and performance products as part of the
relationship.
The agreement also allows for joint research in new technology
projects in the areas of Cold Storage, Big Data analysis and
Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). Big Data analysis is the process
of examining large amounts of various types of data to find useful
information and patterns to assist in decision making.
Cold Storage refers to data that is less frequently accessed
data on Cloud Computing platforms and which generally use lower
cost storage solutions. For example, the historical log on the
Baidu search engine or backup data would likely be in Cold
Storage.
Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) allows data to be squeezed
closer together on a disk drive – like shingles or tiles on a roof
-- allowing for drives to accommodate up to 25 percent more data
per platter without compromising data integrity or reliability.
All of these technologies are cutting-edge and aimed at helping
leading companies such as Baidu deal with the massive volumes of
data which are accessed, uploaded and stored daily.
“Baidu stores and manages data from billions of users request
each day, including webpages, photos, documents and all kinds of
audio/video. We have been committed to elevate our capabilities of
Big Data storage, processing and management to serve our users
better,” said Mr. Wang Jing, Senior Vice President of Baidu. “By
establishing the strategic partnership with Seagate and enhancing
our collaborations in Cloud Storage and Big Data, we can better
address the various challenges of data storage in the Big Data
environments, and enhance storage quality, efficiency and
reliability.”
With the development of Cloud technologies, the mobile Internet,
open source computing, and social networks, the world is making
major inroads in the field Big Data. As the cornerstone of Big Data
storage and analysis, the Cloud enables the efficient integration
and flexible distribution of IT resources, while intelligent
storage is the core that allows for Cloud services. To address the
various challenges of data storage in the Big Data environments,
Seagate and Baidu have established a strategic partnership between
themselves on a worldwide basis.
“Cloud storage will become a natural trend for storage
technology development in the future. As the global leader in
intelligent storage, Seagate is actively transitioning to the
Cloud, and sees China as a strategic focus of Cloud storage,” said
Rocky Pimentel, Seagate’s President, Global Markets and Customers.
“The Internet industry uses Cloud storage, and Seagate has always
paid great attention to and made continuous investments in it. We
are looking forward to seamless cooperation with Baidu, working
closely to develop China’s Cloud market and associated
technologies.”
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